Martha Randolph Carr: Internet opensup book world

8:54 PM,
Sep. 11, 2013

Martha Randolph Carr

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The advent of the internet has changed the way the world operates with the same powerful ripple that the printing press caused in 1450 and for the same reason. The average citizen could more easily find out that a lot of other people were thinking the same thing.

Finding out you're not unique can fuel courage to get up and do something.

Librarians have known for a long time that books, even works of fiction, can transform lives no matter where the reader lives. They can teach us not only that we're not alone but that there's more than one way to look at any given situation. ...